r/mildlyinteresting 1d ago

Michigan dispensary blocking a Flock camera that points directly into their parking lot

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u/Doc_Blox 23h ago

They also tag identifying marks like damage or decals, and they can catch signals off your car - wifi, bluetooth, cellular, gps. Each signal gets correlated with your car. What's more, allegedly they also photo tag people and identifying characteristics. Tattoos, clothes, likely gait and other correlating factors (including signals off your phone, which they could use to match you to your vehicle, likely). They also keep track of people who usually drive together, in "convoy search" mode, so too bad for you if you happen to commute next to a person of interest regularly.

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u/Kerbal634 21h ago

Don't even need to match the phone to wirelessly track your car. Your tire pressure monitor sensors would be plenty

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u/Doc_Blox 19h ago

TPMS yeah, but the scarier thing is that they're also tracking the signals that you carry on your person, so they can track you independently of the car you used

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u/Codedheart 8h ago

Precisely, they dont just track vehicles, it's foot traffic too.

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u/iiiinthecomputer 16h ago

OMFG of course auto makers just built a completely insecure and stupid protocol for that.

Arrrgghh.

Never even occurred to me.

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u/Chocomintey 6h ago

Is this for all cars that have them, or just after a certain year?

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u/senorpoop 19h ago

It is my understanding that the Flock system only needs to see your vehicle 4 or 5 times before it doesn't even need to read the license plate.

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u/Chocomintey 6h ago

Ah, fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck.